"TRANSCEND has as its mission: To bring about a more peaceful world by using action, education/training, dissemination and research to transform conflicts nonviolently, with empathy and creativity, for acceptable and sustainable outcomes. By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively - a never-ending process; By transforming conflicts we mean enabling the parties to go ahead in a self-reliant, acceptable and sustainable manner; By without violence we mean that this process should avoid any cultural violence that justifies direct or structural violence; By with empathy we mean the ability also to understand the conflict the way the parties understand the conflict themselves; By creatively we mean channelling conflict energy toward new realities, accommodating the parties and meeting basic human needs..."